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Manufacturers Mergers and Product Variety in Vertically Related Markets
Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2014
We study final product manufacturers' incentives to introduce new products into the market and how they are affected by a merger among them. We show that when manufacturers distribute their products through multi-product retailers, a manufacturers merger, although it leads to an increase in the...
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Concentration and Market Size : Lower Bound Estimates for the Brazilian Industry
Resende, Marcelo - 2021
The paper estimates the lower bound for market concentration taking as reference the framework advanced by Sutton (1991). Quantile regression methods were considered in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry in 2005 and separate estimates were obtained for exogenous and endogenous...
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Levelized Product Cost : Concept and Decision Relevance
Reichelstein, Stefan J. - 2014
This paper examines a life-cycle cost concept that applies to both manufacturing and service industries in which upfront capacity investments are essential. Borrowing from the energy literature, we refer to this cost measure as the levelized product cost (LC). Per unit of output, the levelized...
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Trade Linkages and the Globalisation of Inflation in Asia and the Pacific
Auer, Raphael - 2014
Some observers argue that increased real integration has led to greater co-movement of prices internationally. We examine the evidence for cross-border price spillovers among economies participating in the pan-Asian cross-border production networks. Starting with country-level data, we find that...
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Intermittent Price Changes in Production Plants : Empirical Evidence Using Monthly Data
Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2018
The price-setting behaviour of manufacturing plants is examined using a large panel of monthly surveyed plant- and product-specific prices. The sample shows a high frequency of zero changes, relatively small price changes, and a strong seasonal price-change pattern. The intermittent feature of...
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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown
Daveri, Francesco - 2010
We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …
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Growing Productivity Without Growing Wages : The Micro-Level Anatomy of the Aggregate Labor Share Decline
Kehrig, Matthias - 2017
The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...
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Offshoring and Skill-Upgrading in French Manufacturing : A Heckscher-Ohlin Melitz View
Carluccio, Juan - 2015
fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …
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Productivity, Price- and Wage-Markups : An Empirical Analysis of the Dutch Manufacturing Industry
Amoroso, Sara - 2015
This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms' monopolistic market power, and workers' wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …
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Competition in the Service Sector and the Performances of Manufacturing Firms : Does Liberalization Matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
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